Tiwi
[别称 Tunuvivi, Diwi, Wonga:k]语系:Isolate
·近危
语系:Isolate
·近危
信息不完整 “New Uses for Old Languages” (207-223 ch. 15) . Paul Black (1993) , Michael Walsh and Colin Yallop · Aboriginal Studies Press
"When I attended a Catholic mass on Bathurst Island, for example, much of the liturgy, but the sermon was delivered in the local Tiwi language...The hymns were also in Tiwi...Prayers are also sometimes said in Tiwi."
信息不完整 “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
"Nonfluent speakers." Speaker number data is from a 1996 census.
English;
Northern Territory; Bathurst and Melville Islands; Nguiu;
信息不完整 “How many languages were spoken in Australia?” . Claire Bowern (2011)
信息不完整 “Community, identity, wellbeing: The report of the Second National Indigenous Languages Survey” . Doug Marmion and Kazuko Obata and Jakelin Troy (2014)
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"A [respondent] reported that Tiwi has up to 35 speakers, none on whom are full speakers."
"There were four Tiwi respondents who participated in the Language Attitude Survey and three of them specifically indicated that they speak Modern/New Tiwi, which is very different from Old Tiwi- the language which used to be spoken- because of the influence of English; it has undergone rapid change since colonisation."